Mobile Connect: Delivering global mobile identity services

Jon Fredrik Baksaas

Advisor, and former Telenor, Group CEO and GSMA, Chairman

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• OTT services

• Social networks

• Know Your Customer:

Telephone number & SIM

• Services

• Interoperability

• Standardisation leads to

scale

• Interconnect & roaming

• Coverage

• Affordability

• Connection

• Handset

• Understanding of market

The winning formula of the industry

Today

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Historical overview

2008

• Financial crisis

• Smart phone

• Mobile takes to the internet

• Start of OTTs

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Major network and technology changes

Source: GSMA Intelligence, 2017. https://www.gsmaintelligence.com

Total connections by generation from 2000 to 2020

(excluding M2M)

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Going forward

Note: The MNO’s have created connectivity but OTTs have seen the better usage

Services

HandsetsNetworks

& Connectivity

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Where does future value creation come from?

• Efficiency & dividends

• More connectivity (5G?)

• More devices (handsets, watches, Spectacles IOT)

• Services (alternative business models)

• How to scale 5 billion individual users?

The future of

digital identity